"several hundred million"? You never said where you got that from. Since you're such a stickler for the details and ensuring all the math adds up, let's hear it.
ok and some maybe are but that specific thing seems to be a way to shut down any conversation and I haven't seen much substance actually coming from it.
Of course Astroturfing is a thing, I have no doubt there are some on this board but I find it pretty interesting when I see you and others that are say against MTX use it to shutdown conversations and it's been used multiple times in this thread and others.
Which posters are you insulting with your baseless accusations?
You can't put all of the blame on pubs as if consumer demand has had no effect on what they put out.
Actual facts aren't corporate talking points fam.
You may be mixing up Ubi's profit and EA's? That's interesting, considering that earlier you were attacking me saying I was reading the data wrong.
You mean like
I'm not sure where you are getting this gamergater accusation from.
things like that have been happening on both sides of the argument.
on gaf, i remember that certain admins made a conscious effort to look into the registration details (e-mail addresses and the like) of posters with suspicious posting histories and banning them
I agree it should be bannable. I am mainly saying neither side comes out looking good on this.
I am still baffled why this never happend during PS3-era. It was the gen of the shoot-bang and Sony was producing shooters galore. And there was a huge demand for Socom Remaster.
barely anyone argued this point. that's a strawman
plenty of people are talking about this in multiple topics.
to be clear, i do not think you are an astroturfer. you post way too often, and to an alarming degree at slmost any hour of day, to be on the clock, lol
Um no, arguably the most frequent posters in these threads argue that they are. In fact, that's Jim's, (and to a larger degree gaming youtubers who made a commodity out of making sure gamers are angry about corporations) entire MO.
Citation needed. As to reiterate, a jim sterling thread.
Multiple people ITT refused to acknowledge it actually. They just went with misinformed conjecture. By the way, it's not about "no fun allowed." it's the fact that people actually run with that. The idea that devs just need to "reduce costs lol" is quite frankly, transparent ignorance. If you want to have a discussion, then actually say something factual instead of running with incredibly naive conjecture and suggestions.
I feel pretty well informed. Are you sure you aren't just being reactionary and misunderstanding? It's pretty clear you are from my perspective.
Complete straw man. Nobody is bitching about Witcher 3 expansions and other quality content based DLC. I did't see these same conversations around AC:Origins story DLC either.
The definition of "quality content" is incredibly arbitrary and subjective.
As it should be.
When I think of a system made to annoy and wear down customers, I think of literally making it less intrusive than the last title.
Using Witcher 3 as an example of a system where company and customer wins doesn't work as the employees certainly don't win. 80% of the devs that had shipped Witcher 2 had left by the end of Witcher 3, it's known as one of the worst in the industry for work conditions and they aren't paid well either. And that's with GOG helping subsidising them. Asking devs to do what CDPR did to produce "quality content" so they aren't seen as "greedy" is going to result in alot of them giving you the middle finger.
If quality content is too much to ask of game companies, then they don't deserve to stay in business.
Yep, I agree with those worker practises CDPR don't deserve to stay in business. I'm sure that's what you meant and not that all the other devs should be crunching constantly like CDPR or Rockstar or Naughty Dog just so you can get bigger, flasher games that have stayed the same price for 10 years.....
ND isn't even an example, considering their games have incredibly grindy MP modes filled with MTs and even at times, p2w dlc.
They do but for some reason people still count them as mainly a single player dev - and these are the devs that are constantly praised as the "good guys" the gmaer devs that truly want the best for their gamers and don't care about the money but their "art" and "pushing the limits" and yawn... They treat their people like a meat grinder.And they are constantly pushed as the example devs should follow if they don't want to be seen as greedy,
